Dance

Bands and DJs

Competitions

It is absolutely thrilling to see the amount of talent that comes to the bluesSHOUT! competition floor every year, and we are always striving to make sure competitors all get time in the spotlight.

With this in mind, we are making a significant change to two contests for BluesSHOUT! 2017, the Newcomer and Open Jack and Jill competitions. We recognize that the tap-out format is difficult for both competitors and judges, and therefore are leaving it behind this year. This means that we will be moving prelims for these contests to lunch time on Saturday and Sunday during the event. In addition, we will need to cap the number of dancers who can enter these competitions. These changes allow us to give competitors enough time to shine, and the judges enough time to see it happen.

Should the competitions fill up in advance of the weekend, we will keep a waitlist and open spots as they become available.